Example sentences for: calling

How can you use “calling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Senate had decided to "roll back 50 years of progress on real efforts to stem the nuclear proliferation," lamented Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, calling it "a definitive vote that said, 'Around the world, we relegate leadership on nuclear proliferation to somebody else.

  • An icon would have ignored the attack, but Ferraro harpooned right back, calling the ad a "sign of panic."

  • Republican senators have been saying for days that they don't want to antagonize the public by calling witnesses and dragging out the trial for months.

  • After the killing of the marines in Beirut, President Reagan signed National Security Directive 138, calling for a "shift . . . from passive to active defense measures" and reprogramming or adding new resources to effect the shift.

  • Several posters in the "Fray" as well as the editor in question, Seymour Itzkoff, believed that Culturebox stopped just short of calling for a gag order.


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